Exponential Medicine is a unique and intensive 4 day experience that gathers world class faculty, innovators and organizations from across the bio-medical and technology spectrum — to explore and leverage the convergence of fast moving tech in the re-invention of health and medicine.

Our home in San Diego, California at the iconic Hotel del Coronado is the magic x-factor in building connections and catalyzing deep conversation among faculty and participants. We make full use of one of America’s most scenic resorts — its history complements the future focus of Exponential Medicine.

From talks given in a custom designed theater with multiple configurations for listening and idea generation, to our hands-on tech lab, beach-side morning yoga, dinners, and bonfires — Exponential Medicine is a high energy, bold re-design of a medical conference.

Designed for the clinicians, innovators, investors, executives, and makers driving progress in smart ways, Exponential Medicine gathers world-class faculty, organizations, and start-ups from across the bio-medical and tech spectrum.

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— 4 core themes —

no. 1 | medical practice + patient care

how will converging technology impact: medicine, diagnostics, clinical decision support

There’s a medical revolution happening. Every year the top venture capitalists, scientists, and entrepreneurs gather at Exponential Medicine by Singularity University to discuss the intersection of exponential tech, health, and vitality. I co-founded this event with my colleague Daniel Kraft a decade ago.

Join us this year to learn about the quantified health movement. Where is quantified health heading? A growing array of tech sensors are becoming available:

wearables:

Wearable bracelets — and wrist-based devices — can go well beyond steps. Some are designed to fit on fingers called ringables — such as the Oura ring. They measure heart rate + heart rate variability. There’s an EKG on Apple Watch. The United States FDA has also cleared cuffless blood pressure tech — such as this device from BioBeat.

insideables:

Beyond the wrist, we can fit health sensors into contact lenses. Embedded RFID chips beneath the skin — read about my own implant here — have been used to store data + unlock doors. And we now have Lumee by Profusa — a subcutaneous chip that can sense various body chemistries.

breathables:

Quantifying the molecules in your breath can be useful — currently used as a method to detect disease. New nano-nose tech is in clinical trials to conduct breath biopsy — sampling a person’s breath to detect the molecular content + patterns that can indicate early stages of lung + other cancers, plus a range of metabolic illness. Owlstone Medical is a global leader in breath biopsy. Some breathables can also quantify ketones in the breath to help people with their target metabolic states.

underwearables:

As sensors have become more capable, less expensive — you can now purchase sensors from Spire Health for each pair of your underwear that measure: respiratory rate, activity, heart rate, and sleep.

trainables:

Feedback provides nudges to help behavior modification. The Upright sensor — worn on your back — measures your posture. If persistent slouching is detected it buzzes to remind you. Improved posture may lessen back pain in some people.

invisibles:

Wearables require synching + charging. But now we’re entering a time where our health be measured digitally by ubiquitous sensors. Cameras can now pick-up heart rate + respiratory rate — for example: Cocoon Cam has a baby monitor on the market.

Kepler Analytics is revolutionizing retail with invisible foot traffic sensors using wireless phone detection tech. Engineers at MIT have prototyped a system called WiTrack that can wirelessly detect human vital signs, movement, and sleep patters of several people in the same room.

Making sense of all the data.

As millions of people wear devices and billions of data points are collected daily — we can start to understand the real-world digital measures of health + illness. The wearable heath tracker FitBit has demonstrated this, for example, in a recent story: FitBit’s 150 billion hours of heart data reveal secrets about health.

With crowd-sourced studies such as Project Baseline by Verily — you can gain knowledge from your sleep pattern and how it compares to other people. And potentially find new digital bio-markers indicating medical issues.

I hope you’ll attend Exponential Medicine where we’ll be sharing + discussing the future of wearables — and the impact they’ll have on heath care at home + hospital, and the opportunities these devices bring for innovative start-ups + business.